Senate ratifies controversial cybercrime treaty
Tech companies say it can boost copyright protection. Others say it will allow FBI's surveillance apparatus to be misused.
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The first and only international treaty designed exclusively to combat computer crime won approval late Thursday from the U.S. Senate.
The Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime "will enhance our ability to cooperate with foreign governments in fighting terrorism, computer hacking, money laundering and child pornography, among other crimes," Sen. Richard Lugar, the Indiana Republican who is chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said in a statement.
